Questions tagged [ipo]
For personal finance questions related to a company's Initial Public Offering (IPO).
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Are employee stock options worthless in a highly valuable company that never "exits"?
What happens to employee stock options and stocks in those rare cases where a start-up is wildly profitable -- but the founders never "exit"? That is, it never goes public or is acquired.
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The listing price of a stock
I was creating python model of hypothetical stock with market cap MC having S outstanding shares whose current price is CP. the intention was to create a chart for technical analysis and understand ...
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Received stock in trade for LLC units as part of an IPO. How to report paper gain?
USA taxpayer.
An LLC in which I had units IPOed. I chose to have some of the units converted into stock instead of receiving cash. (Yeah, didn't expect tech implosion, but that doesn't matter for this....
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What is the thinking behind letting unprofitable corporates list on an exchange?
I read somewhere that 2021 set a record in terms of the number of unprofitable new listings on the exchanges (revenue but no earnings). To verify, I looked up some of the listing requirements and saw ...
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How does one trade IPO stock on the first day of trade?
As one cannot get into IPO before it does public, how can one trade IPO stock on the first day of trading? I understand one can place orders in a public market. But trading in a public market on the ...
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What is ipo issue size and how they decide ipo issue size
What is IPO issue size?
How they decide IPO issue size? I am asking about IPO issue size like 5000 cr. How they decide this size and what can be maximum IPO issue size? Not IPO share price.
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Why does IPO share price decrease?
Assume that I subscribe to an IPO at 1000rs and when it begins trading, its price decreases because IPO subscribers are selling the stock. Why do they subscribe if they're going to sell at a lower ...
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Minimum hold period for initial investors in IPO
Back in 2020 I had some stocks that used to be SPACs and watched their value plummet over a span of a few days as the initial investors were allowed to sell, because their initial required holding ...
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How do early-stage share prices of companies going public via SPAC change?
I currently have a number of series C, non-voting shares (< 1000) in a company that would go public via SPAC on this Monday. Since the price of each unit of SPAC is always price at $10 per unit for ...
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How can I know if some of the money in my bank account is blocked and not available for withdrawal?
I am a resident of India and have a savings account opened with HDFC bank. Recently I applied for an IPO for which INR 14K were blocked from my account. The IPO was not allotted to me and hence the ...
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How to research a company which is going public before making an investing decision?
New companies being listed on stock market don't often have lot of data in public domain. Other than some big names like AirBnb, Doordash, most of the companies are not well known. In this case what ...
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Do low interest rates reduce the growth perspectives after IPOs?
My reasoning is this: A company goes public to raise capital at the price of giving up a certain amount of power and control to the shareholders. Now, if someone founds a company and can borrow risk ...
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Why do companies need to file form 8A?
I currently follow a company (DTST) in progress to be listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market (previously traded on the OTC).
After filling the S1 report with multiple amendments, they also recently filed ...
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I bought my first shares in life and they dropped 25% in a very short time. What to do?
I bought Coinbase stocks shortly after IPO. Now my loss at 25%, however, I am in the fortunate position of not being dependent on the invested money.
I would like to know in retrospect what I and ...
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How do I make shares post-IPO liquid?
I have an option grant I exercised at a pre-IPO company through Carta.com, which shows I have X shares in the company of Common Stock.
The company IPO'd. I didn't sign a lock-up agreement although was ...
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What happens when this company goes from the OTC to NYSE?
Agiliti Inc. (OTCMKTS: AGLY) is trading in the over-the-counter market right now and it will be listed on the NYSE very soon.
What is the price reaction of this stock on the IPO day? Will the price on ...
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Are all investors subject to lock-up period during the IPO?
The company receives its full funding amount during the IPO, where it sells its shares to institutional investors.
Let's say it sold 1 million shares.
Then, when the shares start trading on the ...
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Why is money for SPAC raised even before they have found a potential company to merge with?
From what I have understood, A SPAC shell co. is setup and raises funds through an ipo thereby getting a period of 2 years to find a company they can merge with.
Is there a specific reason that it ...
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How can charges against company surplus be used to reduce a goodwill account?
I am presently reading the second edition of Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham. In chapter 29, "The Dividend Factor in Common-Stock Analysis", to illustrate the relationship between ...
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How to find out the IPO lockup period?
Is there a way to find out the IPO lockup period of a recent public company?
Could I find this information in the S1 document? If so, where exactly should I look for in the S1 document?
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To the employer, is equity more or less expensive than payroll?
I work for a company that compensates employees with low base salary and a bit higher than average equity.
My question is, how much more expensive is paying an employee equity vs standard salary? How ...
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Why must an investment bank underwrite an IPO, not a company's finance department led by the CFO?
Isn't it merely an interaction with a bureaucracy like say.. renewing your passport or getting an apostille on a document? Sure, you can go through a third-party, but you can also do them yourself (...
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Could I buy shares of upcoming NASDAQ IPOs at their offer price? For example: The upcoming Roblox IPO in 2021. If so, how?
This is intended for me: a regular 30 yr old guy who works 9-5, and has a middle class income.
Please describe well. I am nearly a complete noob. I know a little though.
Also I am from Canada.
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What are the different kinds of IPOs?
I recently tried to witness an Initial Public Offering on a trading platform. What struck me is that it seemed to be different according to who the investors were. Indeed, at the time some newspaper ...
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Why would a company prevent their employees from selling their pre-IPO equity?
I have heard and read that some non-publicly traded companies prevent their employees from selling their pre-IPO equity. Why would they have such a policy?
For example, from How to Sell Private ...
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Is there a Central Place where IPOs are announced [closed]
I wish to buy several companies when they have initial public offering (IPO).
Instead of doing google, where is a central website that announces IPOs of companies?
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Is this absurd stat a very unique (w.r.t the point in time in which it was calculated)? If not, are there people who do it?
Reading The Intelligent Investor I came across the following fact which was mind-blowing to me:
Finance professors Jay Ritter and William Schwert have shown that if you had spread a total of only $1,...
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Why did Berkshire Hathaway have an IPO starting at $7000+? [closed]
Or in other words how is IPO value determined?
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When company issues new share to the public at IPO, is its issued/offered price based on Book value per share?
Since it goes public for the first time, there's no market price available to be considered for offers.
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How does company issue more shares after IPO? Does it issue new shares at the market value or book value per share?
1.Take Facebook as an example, it debuted with 421 million shares at IPO and now it has 2.8 billion shares. It hasn't made any stock split since IPO so does its number of shares outstanding increase ...
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The optimal strategy for buying stocks at the IPO
When the company makes the initial public offering (IPO) the prices of stocks in the first days are usually more volatile in average, than for the established business. In the book The Intelligent ...
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Can I raise money in an IPO of my house?
I am thinking of getting some cash by selling shares of my house. Can I sell shares of my house in an IPO to raise some cash for myself? It would be super cool to ring the opening bell during the IPO ...
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What are the differences between IPO and Direct Listing, esp for employees?
If a pre-IPO company is evaluating whether they should go IPO or Direct Listing, how would either option affect employees? Let's say the employees have some combination of NSO, ISO, RSU.
IPO may be a ...
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Why can't I buy stocks during the beginning of an IPO at 9:30am? [duplicate]
I just noticed that I could not buy stocks of an IPO during the beginning to the trade at 9:30am. I tried NYSE:AMWL this morning. I can only buy the stock of an IPO several hours later. Does anyone ...
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How does stock exchange affect the company? [duplicate]
People invest in the company initially using an IPO.
Now I don't understand how trading the stocks with others (who didn't participate in the IPO) would benefit the company.
Also, why do the people ...
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What is a confidential IPO and how do you participate in it?
What is a confidential IPO and is general public allowed to participate in it?
Lately there have been a lot of confidential IPOs. A recent example being the Duck Creek Technologies IPO. I try to ...
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Does an IPO mean a company is going public or is already public?
I know that an IPO means that a particular company, regardless of the country, is offering some quantity of their stocks to the public via the stock exchange.
I also assume (but not sure) that if they ...
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Where can the founder of a company sell his stocks?
Let's assume that we have a tech company that wants to go public. In its IPO, the founder of the company wants to get $10 millions for 10% percent of the company. Those $10 millions will be ...
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How does a company earn money from going IPO and being on the stock exchange? [duplicate]
Please clarify if I understand the process of a company going IPO and selling shares on the stock market.
A company goes IPO, and starts of with selling 1 million shares on an exchange.
Sets the ...
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IPO Lock up trade
I have a question regarding how to benefit from major price movements after the end of a lock-up period post IPO.
I have seen that in many cases there are no extraordinary movements in the prices in ...
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ARAMCO's financial statements [closed]
Can anybody explain me how come that ARAMCOS financial reports are available to the public while its not publicly traded company.
Thank you!
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How do companies get money from being listed publicly? [duplicate]
How do companies get their money from being on the stock market?
I understand the reason a company will list is to raise capital.
Who gives them this money? The stock market is between buyers and ...
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How can a single unit of a business be worth more than its entire market cap?
As of today, June 26th 2019, Thyssenkrupp AG has a market cap of approximately 7.3 billion euros.
On May 10th 2019, Thyssenkrupp AG announced that it will take its elevator business public in an IPO. ...
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Are shares from a direct listing available as soon as markets open?
I’ve noticed in conventional IPOs that some companies’ trading data doesn’t start showing up until the early afternoon on the day they go public. Looking back at Zoom (ZM) for example I’m now able to ...
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Are IPO lockup shares counted when calculating eps?
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Company XYZ has an IPO on January 1st
They offer 10 million shares
90 million shares are still held by insiders
The lockup lasts until June 1st
They report earnings of $100m for Q1 on ...
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SEC institutional pre-IPO disclosure
All funds/managers with assets above 100M need to file their holdings with the SEC in the form of a 13F. like this one for example : https://sec.report/Document/0001567619-19-011051
There is a column ...
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Buy pre ipo'd start up company stock in small amount? [closed]
Is there any investment website/company through which I can buy small amounts of pre-PIOed company stock in a smaller amount? Most require $100K worth of investment.
e.g. as an average investor can ...
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Can an IPO be cancelled if not successful?
Let's say the Company C goes public using a Fixed Price Offering. It emits 10000 shares at 10 euros per share.
What happens if investors only subscribe to, let's say, 789 shares.
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How can I establish myself to be an "accredited investor" relative to an IPO?
A US company with which I have an affiliation (I'm not an employee; I don't think the specifics of our relationship are relevant here) is preparing an IPO and there is a directed share program for a ...
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What happens on the NYSE during an IPO such that the first trade may be hours after the opening bell?
So, I understand that today's Spotify IPO isn't a traditional IPO. But I think my question extends beyond this.
At about 12:45pm today, shares of Spotify finally started trading on NYSE. Opening bell ...
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